Lessons Learned from Crescent City

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Lessons Learned from Crescent City Tsunami
Mitigation and the Role of Education
Lessons from the 2006 tsunami Progress
challenges with earthquake tsunami mitigation
2006 Tsunami Warning and Education Act The need
to integrate earthquake and tsunami mitigation
programs
Crescent City, California November 16, 2006
Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University Congressio
nal Hazards Caucus, October 11, 2007
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November 15, 2006 M8.3 Kuril Islands
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Progress and Problems with the tsunami warning
system
Major improvements in the Tsunami Detection and
Warning Dissemination Ability
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Need to understand the first surge isnt the
biggest
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Need to educate about the range of what a
tsunami is
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Need to educate about the duration of the
tsunami hazard
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Need to develop mitigation tools for small boat
basins
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What is so special about Crescent City?
Need to understand causes of amplification
Need more water level (tide gauge) recorders
Need to develop instruments to measure tsunami
currents
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The Tsunami Warning and Education Act of 2006
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The Tsunami Warning and Education Act of 2006
The expansion of the NTHMP from the five Pacific
states to 29 coastal states, commonwealths, and
territories and the passage of the Tsunami
Warning and Education Act offers a unique
opportunity to strengthen the organizational
structure of the program and enhance tsunami
resilience in the United States.
Need to develop an organizational structure
that preserves the strengths of the original 5
state program, and develop benchmarks for
measuring progress
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PTWC WCATWC
Need to coordinate products and procedures
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Need to strengthen requirements for
certification and recertification Incorporate
earthquakes ??
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Need to EXERCISE!!
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Northern California Survey Results
Need to define desired outcomes and measure
progress
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Need to foster a sense of responsibility for
individual and community preparedness
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